Illusory and spurious correlations: Distinct phenomena or joint outcomes of exemplar-based category learning?

European Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 315-336

  Meiser, Thorsten ^a   Hewstone, Miles ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33744546664     PISSN: 00462772     EISSN: 10990992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.304     Document Type: Review

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